SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1130

ACROSS 25.

1. A formal flower of a rising in London (8, 4) 8. The pipes of Pan keyed-up, per- haps (4-5)

9. Where half of 2 takes a beating

(5) 11. The chronicle of a pious hero (6)

12. A degree of finesse (4, 4) 14. Not the sort of lights to wane (3-7) 16. What to make of fruit in early April! (4) 18. Legal stuff (4) 19. Noisy entrances/ (10)

21. Quick despatch (8)

22. 'I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a - on each hand" (Byron) 13. (6)

Romance made this mother-in- law ruthless (5) Watches the guns (9) What the mill made Daudet (6-6) DOWN Tidy up down there! (5) It's literally apposite (8) There's a right time to show wrath (4) Them were Fred Bullock's (10) He may work in good faith (6) Sound place, thisl (9)

Swell movie takes an old line (5, 7)

Having no roll on the headland is dullness itself (12) One of those whom Buchan saluted (10)

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10. 15. On which to really hammer out a tune (9) 17. Like that naughty sailor! (8) 20. Late, like 17, perhaps (6) 23. Take a bovine course (5) 24. Fight in the yard (4) Solution next week

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